The Dillon tribune., 1887-03-11
MONTANA CONDENSED.
From Our Territorial Exchanges. and
Other Sources.

OtUcr sources.
Benton was flooded las, week.
Wood is $3.50 per cord at Philipsburg.
Helena is bothered greatly ny footpads.
The Anaconda company is again ship.
ping matte.
Philipsbury nows has daily mail: also
4 weekly Mail.
Phiipsburg has II brass band D;'on
used to have one.
Sun River sticks up above the high
water once again.
1t is though; the sheep losses in Ni,soula
county will be light.
Granite has Il new calaboo,.', in which 10
stow away unruly citizens.
Miles City wants the For, keosh fire
engines She needs them.
Willow creek, Madison county, has u
newspaper, called the B~dsrf.
The sheriff Of Custer county would like
to see Frank Dcvins, for horse and cattle
st.a i,g.
1t is proposed to cun>truc: Coco foot
tunnel on the Butte branch Of the Mon
1ana Central
A,l >NcciAl I contract rates entered into
by the Northern Pacific Railway Co, will
y" canc,3ird March sr>,.
Il is said there has no. been a single in.
stance Of suffering, for the ncctssnries of
life in Fort Bcuton Ibis winter
At Butte last week the grand jury found
an indictment against Daniel Searlcs, .di.
tor of the Ai;"o, for criminal libel.
Billings wants land cllice Eight
hundred Of her citizens have pc,itioned for
a new land dstric, with an Office IN that
town.
V"shWdmou.: The mountains between
this place and Neihart will be fu,! Of quartz
hunters rs soon as the snow goes off saffi.
cientlv.
Over 10000 pounds Of chilled s.cc! was
used in constructing the saf. deposit vault
in the new First Nat;ona! bank building at
Helena.
The coal mined ut the Pit,sburg coal
banks, Mca.hcr county, is said to be a fine
quality of anthracite. 1t is said to coke
fully 70 per cent
Bob Johnson, who was taken to Forl
Shaw some time ago badly frozen, has had
part Of one foot and all of the toes of the
other amputatcd.
Travel over the Northern Pacific has
largely increased since the reductions in
passenger rates. The same can be said Of
the Utah and Northern.
Eighty Bozeman taxpayers have signed
paper asking the board Of school trus-
tees to orcsign, for the reason it is thought
they are mismanaging the schools.
Benton Press: Gcorg, d. Patterson
says his loss of sheep during the winter
thus far will not c>ceed 50 head Mr.. p.
has in the neighborhood OF 10000 sheep.
The Miles City DHIy s1oxruol gives cur
rencv to a rumor that band of sheen re-
Gently showed in survived two weeks and
grew Fat feeding on one :,nothrrs iieet..
The managers Of the Billings Stage line
offer 10 take small lots of sacked coal from,
Belt creek into Benton, to relieve the fuel
famine. The coal thus delivered will cost
about 81 per ton.
Yellowstone Je",xM: The Rosbuu
broke up recently and the ice went out
with rush. being shot across the Yellow
stone in direct line almost as though
thrown from mortar
Some Of our ranchmc" are finding it
dittlcnl: TO procure oats for seed The
price to be paid placing them beyond their
means. There is promise Of the coming
season being good one for all kinds OF
cereals and vegetables and it would be uu
fortunate for our ranchmcn to harvest a.
light crop owing to their lack Of mean, to
procure secd-.i,gms.